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Good Men diftnifsd in Peace 



SERMON 

Occafioned by the 

DEATH 

\ Of the late Reverend 

DAVID JENNINGS, D.D. 



PREACHED TO 




The Church of which he was Pastor, 
September 26, 1762. 



By SAMUEL MORTON SAVAGE. 

To which is added, A 

FUNERAL ORATION 

AT HIS 

E R M E N T. 



By^W ILLIAM FORD Junior. 



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SERMON. 

TH E intimate connection in which, for many 
years, I had the honour to Hand with the 
late Rev. Dr. Jennings^ has devolved upon me 
the fervice of paying him this laft public tribute 
of refpect -, a fervice which that connection, and 
my regard to the requefl of his worthy family, 
would not allow me to refufe with decency, tho' 
I engage in it with much concern and diffidence, 
and intreat your candid attention, while I endea- 
vour to lead your thoughts to fome fuitable me- 
ditations, on th T ofe words which you have in 

Luke ii. 29, 30. 
Lord, now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace^ 
according to thy word : For mine eyes have feen thy 
falvation. 

WE learn from the context, feever. 21, &c. 
that according to a law of Mofes re- 
fpeeling firft-born children, oin\bIefled 
Saviour at about fix weeks old was carried to the 
temple at Jerufalem, to be prefented to the Lord. 
And behold, there was a man in Jerufalem whofe 
name was Simeon ; he was a juft and devout man, 
waiting for the confolation of Ifrael^ and the 
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4 A FUNERAL SERMON 

Holy Ghoft was upon him. And it was revealed 
unto him by the Holy Ghoft, that he fhould not 
fee death before he had feen the Lord's Chrift^ or 
that divine Saviour whom the ancient prophets of 
the Jews had foretold and promifed, and whom 
he and other pious Jews were expecting to be 
manifefted, as the author of joy and confolation to 
Ifrael. And he came by a particular impulfe of 
the Spirit to the temple, at the time when the pa- 
rents of J ejus brought him there. And immedi- 
ately knowing who the child was, he took him 
up in his arms, and bleffed God, and faid, ' Lord, 
* now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace ac- 
' cording to thy word : For mine eyes have feen 
c thy falvation. 9 This good man appears to have 
been advanced in years, drawing towards the ufual 
period of nature, and ripe and ready for his diilb- 
lution. But having had a divine promife, that he 
fhould' firft fee the expected Saviour come in the 
flefh, he feems to have been fome time waiting and 
longing for this happy event ; and now it was ar- 
rived, he expreffes his readinefs immediately to 
quit this world, in which he could look for nothing 
elfe worthy his notice, after his eyes had been 
bleffed v/ith this divine fpeclacle, after he had {cm 
and embraced Jefus, the Saviour of his people. 
cc Now, fays he, O Lord, thou haft fulfilled thy 
cc promife ; for I have feen him whom thou haft 
cc lent to be the author of falvation \ now thou art 
" pleafed to difmifs me in peace •, this was all I 
tc waited for, and now my difrniffion from the 
*;[ world is welcome." Thus the primary mean- 
ing 



for the Reverend T)r. Jennings." 5 

ing of the words is obvious ♦, but they will admit 
being confidered with greater latitude, as appli- 
ble to other good men in later ages ; and may fur- 
niih us with this general obfervation, viz. " That 
" the fervants of God, who have feen his falva- 
" tion, are ufually difmifTed by him in peace. 5 * 
Hence I fhall, 

I. Briefly ilate the character of & fervant of God, 

II. Shew what God's difmiffing his fervants in 
peace may imply. 

III. What is meant by feeing his falvation. And> 

IV. What ground that affords for a peaceful 
difmijfion. 

I. Let us briefly conflder the character of a fer- 
vant of God^ and to whom it is applicable. A 
fervant of God is fome times ufed in Scripture as a 
title of peculiar honour ', fignifying one employed 
by the great God on fome fpecial^ important oc- 
cafion * ; as our great officers of ftate, and prime 
minifters are often called the King's fervants. So 
our Lord Jefus Chrift himfelf is emphatically called 
God's fervant {If a. xlii. 1.) fo was Mofes^ his type; 
and fo the Apoftles call themfelves fervants of God, 
or of Jefus Chrift ~f , as they were the principal 
minifters in erecting the gofpel-kingdom. And 
in this view, the fame appellation is fometimes 

* See Mifcell. Sacr. v. 2. p. 12—15, 

\ Rom, i. i. Tit, 1, 1. James \. I, zVst.l, 1, 

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given to the Prophets under the Old Teftameritj 
and to the Minifters of the gofpel under the New, 
as in 2 c Tim. ii. 24. So Simeon might ufe it of him-* 
ielf, on account of his bearing a kind of prophetical 
characler J-, or perhaps he might only on this parti- 
cular occqfion come under a fpecial, divine illuminati- 
on, and then the term may be taken here in a larger 
fenfe, as meaning good men in general. This is 
indeed its common acceptation in Scripture. By 
fervants of God we are therefore to undefftand 
'good perfons, or fuch as, like this Simeon, arejuj? 
and devout, (ver. 25.) fuch as have a holy fear 
and reverence of the great and blefTed God, for 
the ruling principle in their hearts and lives. 
This principle was frequently ufed for the whole 
of religion under the Old Teftament diipenfatioa* 
as good people were then more commonly fliled 
the fervants of God ; while under the New Tefta- 
ment they are ufually honoured with the title of 
God's children, in whom love to him is fuppofed 
to be the ruling principle. But though that love, 
which is the chief fpring of evangelic obedience, 
cafts out flavifh fear, there is a holy ingenuous 
fear of God, confident with true love to him, 
which is an effential part of the religious characler 
under the gofpel, as well as it was under the law, 
and which refults from confidering ourfelves as his 
fervants and children both. So the Pfalmift calls 
upon the Saints both to fear and love the Lord, 
and with fearing him joins hoping in his mercy, 
and fpeaks of himfelf as God's fervant, devoted 

% Sec Saurins Sermons, Vol. V. p. 58. 

to 



for the Revir end Dri Jets xitibs'i J 

to his fear. To be the fervants of God then is 
the charaa er of ill good people^ or belongs to all 
fuch as have an ingenuous reverence for God 
brought in their hearts, governing their other 
affections, and producing a humble chearful fub- 
million to his will, and a regular courfe of obe« 
dience to his commands -, to fuch as do not wil- 
fully break his laws, nor habitually neglect any 
of the duties of religion, but heartily endeavour 
to do the whole of their duty, and glorify God in 
the world, and are fincere and faithful, though 
they are always ready to acknowledge themfelves 
imperfect and unprofitable fervants. But I mall 
not enlarge further on this common topic, that 
I may have more time for considering thofe par- 
ticulars which are more peculiar to the text $ efc 
pecially as one of them, viz. feeing God's falva- 
tion, will alfo afford us a general defcriptive cha- 
racter of good people, more peculiar to the Ghrif- 
tian difpenfation. We are then, 

II. To confider what God's difmiffing his fer- 
vants in peace may imply. And here let us, 

1 ft. Enquire into the import of God's difmiffing 
ms. Lord, now let t eft thou thy fervant depart, more 
exactly, thou difmiffeft thy fervant. It is a difmif- 
fion from the prefect life, from this world and 
all its concerns, which is here intended. And 
this is reprefented as the u5i of God * •, it is He 

* Saur'n, Vol. V. p. 59, 

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who difmifles us from life, who gives us leave and 
power to die. Now this intimates two things ; 

i ft. That life is to be confidered as a fiation and 
fervice^ which we muft not quit^ till we are dis- 
charged from it by the authority of God, who has 
affigned it us, till he gives us leave * to depart. 
So good men are ftiled in the text the fervants of 
God, and he is ftiled their Lord, or Mafier^ as the 
original word f particularly means. This world 
is but a large family, which belongs to the great 
God, which he Superintends, and in which all 
men are but his Servants, who have particular 
parts allotted them by him to fill up, and particu- 
lar duties to difcharge, relative to the good of the 
whole. None of us live to ourfelves, or die to 
ourSelves - 9 but living or dying we are the Lord's. 
He has an abSolute right to diSpoSe of us -, to em- 
ploy us in his Service as long as he pleafes, and to 
diSmiSs us from it when he pleafes. He has given 
us all, as well as our blefTed Saviour, work to do 
here : and we muft not grow weary of the diffi- 
culties of our place, nor impatient to quit it, till 
we have finifhed our work, have Served our ge- 
neration according to the will of God, and glori- 
fied him thereby ; then like our Saviour, we may 
alfo beSeech our heavenly Fauier, to glorify us 
with himfelf, John xvii. 4, 5. So Job fpeaks of 
accomplifhing as a hireling his day, Ch. xiv. 6. 

* See Stockius's Clavis of the New Teftament, in the words 
etToAfw, and avaxvco, or p. 648. 
f See Pa/Tors Lexicon on the word cTso-totm?. 

Till 



for the Reverend Dr. Jennings. 9 

Till the fervice of the day is over, we muft not 
look for the evening of reft -, but as foon as our 
work is done, God figns our difmiflion, that we 
may reft from our labours, and go to receive our 
reward. J Some of the antient philofophers ufed 
to reprefent men as in a military capacity, who 
have various pofts afligned them, which it is their 
duty to maintain, till they have the leave of God 
their commander to quit them. And the Scrip- 
ture ufes the fame allufion, when it tells us of a 
warfare appointed to man upon earth, Job vii. 1. 
And fometimes it reprefents life, in allufion to the 
Grecian games, as a race fet before us, a courfe 
God has appointed us to complete : till therefore 
we have finifhed our courfe, we can make no pre- 
tenfions to the crown. And whatever difficulties, 
danger, or oppofition we have to encounter, we 
muft not inglorioufly defert our pofi, or neglect 
the duties of it, except we would meet the awful 
refentment of him, whofe fovereign will has 
placed us therein. Further, 

2dly. God's difmifjing us may intimate, that the 
prefent life is a ftate of confinement, reftraint and 
fuffering to good men, from which God gives them 
enlargement by death. The Greek word in the 
text originally fignifies, the diffohnng any fort of 
connexion, and therefore it is naturally ufed for 
fetting at liberty, or releafing from bonds, as in Luke 

% See Dr. Clark's Evidences of Natural and Revealed Reli- 
gion, Prop. I. Or, Dr. Watts' s Works, Vol. II. p. 363, 4. 
Alfa the Somnium Sapioms in Tu/fy. 

xiij. 



*6 rf FUNERAL SERMON 

xiii. 12. Heb. xiii. 23. and elfe where. And drie 
of the Greek hiftorians * applies it with this figni- 
fication to deaths which he calls a diffolution of the 
bonds of the body, or a difmiflion from therm 
At prefent, the connection of the foul and body is 
fo clofe, that the latter has a great and almoft ir- 
refiftible influence on the former, and fo debafes, 
depreffes and enfeebles its nobleft powers and fa- 
culties, that the multitude of mankind lead no 
other than an animal, or fenfual life, and the peo- 
ple of God find great difficulty to maintain and ex- 
ercife their fpiritual life, and to prevent their being 
quite overcome by bodily paffions and appetites* 
They feel continual reftraints and checks upon 
their divine affections and afpirations, and perpe- 
tual impediments to their growth in grace^ and 
the improvement of their minds in knowledge, 
piety and virtue ; and therefore they cannot look 
upon their prefent embodied ftate, but as one of 
confinement and fuffering, from which they would 
be glad to be enlarged. And it is death that gives 
them releafe, by diffolving the union of foul and 
body, and putting a flop to all the influence of 
this fen Able world upon their immortal fpirits. 
And fometimes their fenfe of the trials and trou- 
bles of life, and the impediments, ftruggles and 
oppofition they meet with in religion, are fuch, 
that they even groan under the burden, and with 
and long for the kind deliverance of death) to 
give them an immediate entrance into the world 



* Arrian, fee Stockius ubi fupra, 



for the Reverend Br. Jennings. ti 

fof perfect holinefs and happinefs, and to the blifs- 
ful prefence of their Redeemer^ 2 Cor* v. 1—* 8* 
But it is their duty and care not to be impatient ^ 
but to wait his will and pleafure, to wait his time 
for their releafe out of this world, who fent them 
into it. So fome of the heathen philofophers 5 
particularly Plato and his followers, reprefented 
the body in the prefent date, as the prifon of the 
foul, into which it was fent to do penance for the 
fins of a pre-exiftent Hate;* and juftly argu- 
ed, from this falfe principle, that we are not 
to break prifon and run away. Though when 
divine Providence does itfelf offer us a juft occa- 
fion of leaving this world, as when a man choofes 
to fuffer death rather than commit wickednefs, a 
wife man will then indeed joyfully depart, fays one 
of them, as out of a place of forrow and darknefs 
into light 1 yet he will not be in fuch hafte, as to 
break his prifon contrary to law •, but will go 
when God calls him, as a prifoner when difmiffed 
by the magiftrate, or lawful power. And again, 
fays he, unlefs that God, whofe temple and palace 
this whole world is, difcharges you himfelf out of 
the prifon of the body, you can never be received 
to his favour. And furely Chriftians mould learn, 
with humble fubmimon and patience, to wait his 
time for their enlargement, whofe will fixed the 
bonds of the body upon their fouls, and who 
alone has the right to loofe them \ who has the keys 
of Hades or the invifible world, and of death, the 



* See Clark t or Waits ubi (up 



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12 A FUNERAL SERMON 

entrance into it ; who fhuts and no man can open> 
and opens and no man can fhut. Our times are 
in his hands, who has all fecond caufes and inftru- 
ments under his controul : we are all immortal, 
till he figns the warrant for our difmiflion, and 
then no man can redeem his life, or prolong his" 
continuance here. "With refpecl to death, though 
fo defirable an enlargement to good men, we 
fhould learn to fay, with an excellent perfon of 
^ the laft age*, Lord, when thou wilt, and how 
thou wilt. When death therefore is fpoken of, 
as God's difmijfing us, it intimates, that the prefent 
life is aftation and fervice, which we muft not quit 
without his leave -, and a ftate of reftraint and Juf- 
fering, from which it is his prerogative to releafe 
us. We are to enquire, 

2dly. What is meant by God's difmifling us in 
-peace, as he does his fervants who have feen his 
falvation. Now this implies, 

i ft. With refpect to their ftate, that God re- 
moves good people out of this world, not in a 
way of anger, but of mercy and favour. The 
original word which we render by letting us de- 
part, as it fignifies diffolving any fort of con- 
nection, is apply'd to legal obligations, and fignifies 
remiting debts and punifhments ; as in Matth. xviii. 
27. Luke vi. 37. and fuch a meaning it will bear 
in the prefent cafe. Tho' all men are debtors and 
criminals in the fight of God, and fin and the 

* Mr. Baxter. 

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for the Reverend Dr. Jennings. 13 

curfe of his broken law firft introduc'd death into 
the world, and the wicked are arretted by death, 
to be thrown into the prifon of hell, are driven 
away in wrath, and hurried to the place of tor- 
ment and punifhment •, yet there is One^ who has 
born the curfe, and fuffer'd the bitternefs of death, 
for all that believe in him, and has made them 
the friends of God ; Jefus Chrift, that Juft One y 
who fuffer'd for us the unjuft, to bring us to 
God, to procure pardon and acceptance with him, 
for all penitent fmners. To them therefore death 
is font, not as the executioner of the vengeance 
of an incenfed fovereign, but as the meffenger of 
a kind, merciful father, who, having forgiven 
them all their offences, and being fully reconciled 
to them, will not let them continue any longer in 
this ftate of banifhment from his prefence, in this 
flate of diftance from their delightful home ; but 
fends death to remove them from a world, which 
is too polluted and wretched to afford them reft, 
where they can't be happy, and could not bear 
to continue always, to bring them home to him- 
felf, in a world of perfect holinefs and happmefs, 
a world where their treafure and their hearts are, 
and where they defire to be for ever. He fees 
they have finifh'd the work he gave them to do ; 
and he fees fit they fhould have no farther trials, 
but commifiions death to admit them to their 
everlafting reft and reward. Death is among the 
all things which are their 9 ? thro' Chrifi, 'tis a blef- 
fing of the new covenant. Death in fact is always 
an ad of mercy m God to good men, as it deli- 
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?4 A FUNERAL SERMON 

vers them from the fins and miferies of this world, 
to take them to the happinefs of another world. 
And very often the 'death of good people is fa 
tim'd and circumjica'd, as to difcover much of 
the peculiar goodnefs of God, in taking them 
away from the evil to come, from fuch public, or 
family troubles, or from fuch perfonal trials of 
painful diforders, debility, and incapacity, for ufe- 
fulnefs, as they might have great room to expect, 
and as would have been extremely diftrefling to 
themfelves and their friends. God's difmifTing his 
fervants in pace then fignifies, his removing them 
hence by death in a way of mercy and favour, to 
take thsm to himfelf. This is the firft and chief 
thing to be regarded in death. But, 

2dly. It is to be further obferv ? d, that being 
difmifs'd in peace may refpect the temper, with 
which good men are difpos'd to meet death. It 
intimates, for inftance, 

i ft. That they acquiefce without relutlance in 
the good pleafure of God, to remove them 
out of this world. This is a happy effect of 
religion, which is generally to be obferv'd in 
pious perfcns. " The end of the upright is 
" peace," PfaL xxxvii. 37. Whether they have 
the joys of lively hope or not, truly good people, 
if they enjoy their fer»fes, have ufually calm, peace- 
ful frames in their latter end, and are enabled to 
rejign themfelves up to the difpofal of God, as 
children in the hands of a wife and tender parent, 

The 



for the Reverend Br. Jennings." 13 

l*he wicked have no reafon to be willing to die, to 
quic all their comforts, and go to meet the anger 
of an offended God, and be doom'd to endlefs 
miiery. And with what reluctance and agonies 
are they often feen to make their exit ! But di- 
vine grace, that has forrold the Chriftian to refigt 
nation and obedience to the will of God during 
life 9 will feldom fuffer him to be fo much under 
the prevalence of melancholy doubts and fears, 
when death approaches, as not to exercife the fame 
graces then. He can truil that God with the care 
of his foul in the other world, who is Lord of 
both worlds, and has been his guide and fupport 
in this, fie can follow him thro' the valley of 
the fhadow of death, who has carried him fafe 
thro' the dangers and difficulties of life. He be- 
lieves that infinite wifdom gnd gqodnefs cannot 
have order'd his death wrong, and is therefore; 
ready to receive the notice of it, with a " Lord, 
u thy will be done." Tho' Chriftians are not tq 
be weary of the duties and trials of life ♦, fure they 
will accept releafe from them chearfully, and will 
be ready to give up their difficult fervice, when- 
ever God fees fit tq employ them in it no longer, 
to quit their dangerous ftation, when 'tis not ne- 
ceffary for them to maintain it, and to part with 
t}ie bodies of their vilenefs, infirmity, pain and 
temptation, and with all their connections to a 
hoftile, enfnaring world, as foon as ever the great 
Difpofer of all events thinks proper to dififolve 
them ! This world can never be a very defirable 
glace to ferious Chriftians \ and therefore w:hen 

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they have gone thro' their part in it, they will 
welcome their difmiffion from it, and be glad to 
hear their heavenly Father call them hence. So 
St. Paul was not only wilting, but very dejtrdus to 
die, 2 Cor. v. i — 8. Phil. i. 23. Which leads 
me to obferve, 

2dly. That good men fometimes enjoy very 
lively hopes, and comfortable, delightful profpecls of 
heaven, in a dying hour. They have good reafon 
to be refign'd to death, nay to wiiri and long for 
it, as they are fometimes enabled to do, becaufe 
it is the means of their greateft good. Death is 
not the friend of nature, but of grace, for it vio- 
lates nature, and deftroys the union of its confti- 
tuent parts, and was brought upon it as the penal 
effect of fin ♦, therefore nature can but view and 
dread it as it's word enemy ; and wicked men, if 
they have any thought about them, commonly 
meet it with terror. 3 Tis grace only can enable 
us to meet it with pleafure, and, thro' a trium- 
phant Redeemer, to triumph over all its frightful 
forms, and view it, as in reality, a kind friend and 
benefactor, as the final period of all our forrows, 
and the never to be forgotten asra of our higheft 
joys. When Chriftians have the ferene pofleffion 
of their minds, and are doling a life that has been 
exemplary for piety and virtue, and has afforded 
them long experience in religion, and the habit 
of faith has grown ftrong and vigorous, for the 
rnoft part they have the comfort of it's lively ex- 
crcife at lad, and it exerts itfclf to the utmoft, 

when 



for the Reverend Br. Jennings. 17 

when 'tis juft going to be loft in the world of 
vifion. The Scripture lays it down as a gene- 
ral truth, " That the righteous has hope in his 
" death/' Prov. xiv. 32. and 'tis commonly veri- 
fied. The Chriftian receives his difmiffion, as 
from the hands of his reconciled God and Father* 
For his faith in Chrift^ and the redemption thro' 
his blood fpeaks peace to his confcience, and dis- 
arms death of its fling, which is the curfc of 
God's broken law. He dies in the favour of 
God, and with a comfortable fenfe of his love ; 
and he believes, that the love of the eternal God 
cannot be exhaufted by what it has done for him 
here, but will do infinitely more for him hereafter- 
He has a firm faith, in the promife of eternal life 
to all Chrift's difciples, and a good hope through 
grace that he himfelf is one of them ; and there- 
fore he can rejoice in. hope of the heavenly glory. 
And fometimes the comforting, fealing influences 
of the holy Spirit are granted to departing faints, 
in fuch a large meafure, that they have not only 
the witnefs of their relation to their heavenly Fa- 
ther, but alfo the earneft in themfelves of their 
heavenly inheritance, and can fay in full afiu ranee 
of faith, that they know they are going to a better 
world, a world of perfect peace and joy-, and 
their faith almoft making up the want of fight, 
they can rejoice in the foretafte of the blefiings of 
which they are going to take .pofTeffion, and tri- 
umph in that beloved Saviour, whom they are 
juft ready to behold ! How peaceful and joyful is 
.many a Cbriftian's death I And that is very com- 
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it A FUNERAL SERMON 

fortable and animating to furviving friends. But 
when this is not the cafe, it mould not occafion 
doubts and fears about the fafety of their ilate % 
as the graces of true Chriftians, particularly faith* 
the moft neceffary in this cafe, are not always in 
lively exercife, and their frame of mind depends 
much on that of their bodies, whofe diforders 
may impair their reafon, or quite take away their 
fenfes. I proceed now to the 

Hid general head proposed, which is, to fhew 
you what may be meant by feeing God's falvation, 
" Mine eyes have feen thy falvation," fays good 
old Simeon^ while he had the blefled Jefus in his 
arms ; and therefore falvation, by a common figure 
of fpeech, feems directly to mean the Saviour* 
or author of falvation. But Simeon ftyled him 
fb, from a prophetical knowlege of the falvation 
which he was to be the author of to all people, 
that fpiritual falvation, in which Jews and Gen- 
tiles and all his people partake, fee ver. 31, 32. 
As we can't at prefent fee the Saviour himfelf, 
but may fee his falvation, and muft fee it, if we 
would be difmifs'd in peace •, let us briefly con- 
fider, 

1 ft. What this falvation means, or wherein it con- 
fifts. 'Tis no mere temporal deliverance, as the 
bulk of the Jews expected from the Meffiah ; but 
a fpiritual falvation, 'as. Simeon under divine in- 
fluence defcribes tf, to be a light to enlighten 
the Gentiles, as well as the glory of Ifrael, and as 

Zachom 



for the Reverend Dr. Jennings. 19 

Zachariah had before defcrib'd it, to confift in 
remiflion of fins, and giving light to them that 
fit in darknefs, and in the fhadow of death, and 
guiding their feet into the way of peace, Luke i. 
j j, jg. 'Tis in fhort, the falvation that is in, or 
by Chriji Jefus^ with eternal glory. Now this fal- 
vation confifts more immediately in deliverance 
from fin ; as Cbrift was to be calPd J ejus, the Sa- 
viour, for this very reafon, that he was to fave 
his people from their fins, Maitb. i. 21. 'Tis 
but initial in this world r and is to be completed 
in the other. At prefent, Cbrift' s people are freed 
from the guilt of fin, there's now no condemna- 
tion to them that are in him •, God forgives them 
all their iniquities, and is reconciPd to them, and 
grants them much peace of confcience, and con- 
foiation in Cbrift. They are alfo at prefent freed 
from the dominion of fin. Sin does not reign in 
their mortal bodies,, has not the dominion in 
their natures \ becaufe they are not under the law, 
which only commands, without giving help to re- 
fill fin, but are under the grace of the gofpe), 
which gives life and flrength to fubdue our cor- 
ruptions and overcome temptations. This fal- 
vation further confiils, in deliverance from all 
the penal effects of fin. The troubles of life are 
falutary corrections, not curfes to true Chrifiians ^ 
and death is but their gate to blifs. They have 
God's favour and bleffing, his holy image and 
likenefs, for part of their prefent falvation. And 
hereafter, their 'falvation mall be completed, in 
their utter deliverance from the apprehenfions of 
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20 A FUNERAL SERMON 

guilt, the indwelling, the occafions, and all the 
effects of fin, and in their perfect conformity to 
God, and their full, Uninterrupted, everlafting 
enjoyment of him, in a bright and blifsful worlcL 
Such is the import of falvation j which we may 
obferve, 

2dly. Is Gad's falvation. The text is ad- 
drcfs'd to God? when it fays, (c mine eyes have 
" feen thy falvation. As J ejus Chrift^ the Saviour, 
is himfelf God y s, is his fon and his gift ; fo the 
falvation we have thro* him is alfo God's falvation. 
The great God is the original author, and hrs 
glory is the ultimate end of our falvation; and he 
is to be fupremely acknowleg'd in the whole of 
it. So the apoflle teaches us to trace up all its 
bleffings to him, as their author, fum and fub- 
ftance, i Cor. iii. 21, 23. All things are yours, 
whether Paul^ Apollos, or Cephas, that is, minifters 
and religious ordinances, or the world, or life, or 
death, or things prefent, or things to come, all 
are yours, and ye are ChriJPsy and Chrift is God % s. 
Nothing lefs than the infinite wifdom and mercy 
of the Deity, could defign and contrive the won- 
derful fcheme of our falvation ; and nothing lefs 
than his almighty power could carry it into exe- 
cution, and carry it on to it's perfection. He who 
was with God, and was God, the Immanuel^ im- 
mediately and in his own perfon reveal'd falvation 
and procur'd it for us •, and he begins it in us, 
and will advance and perfect it, and beftow all 
it's glories upon us. And God himfelf will be the 

life 



for the Reverend Dr. Jennings. 21 

life and fubftance of our complete falvation, of 
our bleffednefs in heaven -, whofe rivers of plea- 
fure flow from his right hand, and whofe fulnefs 
of joy is conilituted by his prefence. He is the 
portion of his people, and their exceeding great 
reward. For when falvation is fly I'd God's falva- 
tion, it may intimate it's greatnefs and value. 'Tis 
fo great falvation, that an infpir'd writer could not 
find an adequate epithet for it ; 'tis one of that 
infinite excellency, value and extent, that is wor- 
thy of the infinite God to contrive, accomplifh. 
and beftow upon thofe for whom he has the greatefl 
affection. But let us attend, 

3dly. To what may be imply'd in feeing this fal- 
vation. " Mine eyes hwefeen thy falvation," is an 
emphatical pleonafm, frequent in the Hebrew, 
tho' not peculiar to that language. Simeon literally 
faw and embrac'd the Saviour, which 'tis impof- 
fible for us to do ; but he could only by faith dif- 
cover the future falvation, of which Jefus was to 
be the author. Therefore as apply'd to falvation, 
and expreffing fomething common to all good 
people, feeing it mufl be underflood figuratively ; 
and it's import may be compriz'd in the two fol- 
lowing particulars, 

1 ft. Believing in God's falvation. Looking to 
Jefus the Saviour is us'd for faith in him, as me- 
tephors borrow'd from the other fenfes have alfo the 
fame application ; anctbeholding his glory, as dif- 
play'd in the glafs of his word, is put for believ- 
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ing it, 2 Cor. iii. 18. So to fee that falvatiort 
which is in and thro' him, fignifies having a firm 
belief and perfuafion of it. Faith is the leading 
grace in the chriftian life, and the firfl requifite to 
our partaking of faving bleffings. They that dis- 
believe and neglect the great falvation, cannot be 
partakers of it. But fuch as would enjoy an in- 
tereft in it, mud ferioufly confider their need of it, 
attend to its evidences, meditate on its fuitable- 
nefs, fulnefs, extent and freedom, and be con- 
vinc'd of its divine appointment, that it is pro- 
vided for fuch as they are, and that they^ weak 
and indigent, finful and unworthy as they are, 
may freely partake of it. As feeing is one of our 
principal means of obtaining the moft. fatisfa<5tory 
knowlege of things, fo the ufe of this expreflion 
here, may intimate that confirmed belief, and full 
perfuafion of the truth and excellency of the gof- 
pel falvation, which folid and experienc'd Chriftians 
have, and which is necefTary to a comfortable death ; 
for though fafety after death is very confident 
with doubts, peace and comfort in it require faith 
without wavering. 

2dly. To fee this falvation alio implies an expe- 
rhnmtal acquaintance with it, or an experience of 
it, and participation in it. It is not a mere fpecu- 
lative belief, that comprehends all the true Cbrif 
tiatfs p relent concern with the gofpel falvation, 
and prepares him for peace and comfort in death. 
Simeon not only faw but embraced Chrift ; and the 
ancient Patriarchs, whofe faith is celebrated in the 

nth 






for the Reverend- Dr. Jennings, 23 

3 1 th of Heb. are faid, not only to have feen the 
promifes of falvation afar off, and to have been 
perfuaded of them, but alio to have embraced 
them. What St. John fays of himfelf and the 
other Apoftles, 1 Johni. 1. is applicable in a fpi- 
ritual fenfe to all true believers, they have not only 
heard, and feen with their eyes, and looked upon 
it, but their hands have handled the word of life : 
or according to another fcripture metaphor, they 
have tafied that the Lord is gracious, 1 Pet. ii. %. 
they have had a participation and experience of 
Chrift 9 s faving benefits. They have believed with 
the heart unto righteoufnefs. Their minds have 
been nrft enlightened with the knowlege of the 
truth as it is in Jefus, and their judgments convinced 
of their need of him and his falvation. But this 
is not all, here they have not refted \ for then they 
would fall fhort of falvation at laft. But their 
will has been brought over to approve and accept 
of Chrift to be their Saviour, in the way of the 
Gofpel, to be their Saviour from fin itfelf, as well 
as from its punifhment -, they have been enabled 
to receive him, and give up themfelves to him as 
fuch *, their defires and affections have been ear- 
neftly drawn out after himj and the bleffings of 
his falvation, and they have had feme pleafing ex- 
perience of and delight in them •, at leafl this has 
been the cafe with them fometimes, and efpecially 
in advanced and eftablifhed Chriftians^ who are 
ready for a peaceful difmiffion. Such have receiv- 
ed Chrift J ejus the Lord with a cordial faith, which 
has commenced a vital union betwixt him and 

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24 A FUNERAL SERMON 

them, and according to the gracious tenor of the 
gofpel-covenant, has given them an interefl in all 
his faving benefits, or has actually begun his fal- 
vation in their fouls. They have received the for- 
givenefs of their fins, and they have received the 
Holy Ghoft, who has renew'd and fan&ified their 
natures, and transformed them in fome good mea- 
fure already into his holy image. All the graces 
of thefpiritual life have been formed in their hearts 
and tempers, and are daily improving and carrying 
on to perfection by their divine Author, as the 
evidence and pledge of their future porTeflion of 
eternal life, or of that complete and glorious fal- 
vation in which they now believe, of which they 
are heirs, and for which they look and long. 
To fee the -gofpel-falvation then as true Chriftians 
do, is both ferioufly to believe the fcripture reve- 
lation of it, and to have an experience of its com- 
mencement, by a work of renewing grace in our 
own fouls. I am now, 

IV. and Laftly, To fhew you what ground this 
will afford for a peaceful difmiflion ; ' now lettefl 
thou thy fervant depart in peace \ for mine eyes 
have feen thy falvation.' Whenever the Chriftian 
can adopt this latter part of Simeon's fong, he can 
alfo adopt the former part of it: whenever he 
can fay, that he has feen the falvation of grace, he 
can alfo fay, that he is ready to depart in peace, 
and can rejoice in the hope of glory. The one is 
the ground of the other. Their connettion^ or the 
dependance of our being difmilTed in peace, upon 

our 



for the Reverend Dr. Jennings. 25 

our having feen God's falvation, I fhall briefly 
argue and illuflrate in a few particulars. 

1 ft. Our having feen the gofpel falvation, as juft 
explain'd, or having believed in and partly ex- 
perienced it, is a reafon of God's difmijfing us in peace ; 
it is a reafon on his part, for granting us our 
difmiflion in a way of mercy and favour, and 
not cutting us off in wrath and vengeance. It 
is what carries in it the reafon of a means, and 
not of merit ; for finful creatures, as the beft of 
men are, muft eternally difclaim all merit of theirs, 
with regard to God. But though we cannot me- 
rit any bleflings, in a way of debt from the jufti.ce 
of God, we muft neverthelefs have a meetnefs for 
the reception of his favours, or his holinefs and 
wifdom will not allow him to beftow them 3 for 
we are to remember, that it is in all wifdom and 
prudence his grace abounds towards us, Eph. i. 8. 
He confers lower, to fit us for higher bleflings, the 
initial bleflings of grace here, that it may become 
him to crown us with the confummating bleflings 
of glory hereafter. Till therefore we have par- 
taken of his grace, and his fpiritual falvation has 
been begun in us, we cannot obtain a peaceful 
difmiflion from him, and a paflport in death to 
the manflons of glory, prepared for his people. 
When unbelieving, impenitent finners die, they are 
fent to their own proper place, a place of torment, 
horror, and defpair; and till we have believed in 
Qhrifty and accepted his falvation, we are all of us 
children of wrath, and cannot be in a ftate of 

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*6 A FUNERAL SERMON 

peace with God, and therefore cannot be dif- 
miffed by him in peace. But v/hen we have be- 
lieved in, and received J ejus Chrifi, as our Lord 
and Saviour, he is our peace, and by him we re- 
ceive * reconciliation with God. It is then, accord- 
ing to the tenor of the new covenant, we are par- 
doned and juftified by the blood of Chrift, are re- 
ftored to God's favour, and renewed in his likenefs, 
are adopted into his family, and have him, for the 
God of peace, engaged to take care of us in life 
and death, in time and eternity. Then death be- 
comes a covenant blefling, and is fent as the mef- 
fenger of love, to put a period to our forrows 
and troubles, our toils and conflicts, to give us a 
releafe from our painful conHnement, and an abun- 
dant entrance into the reft and recompence and 
joy of our Lord. 

adly. Having (een God^s falvatlon, believed in 
and felt its power, fits us for dying in peace, with 
refpedl to our own frame and temper. It has a 
fnre tendency to do fo % and though a conftitu- 
ttonal melancholy, the nature of -the mortal difeafe, 
or fomething fovereign and unaccountable in the 
divine difpenfations, may now and then prevent it, 
for the moiL part it does produce this happy effect. 
And that for very obvious and* fubftantial reafons, 
which 1 Inail briefly touch. As, 

* So zciTciXkAyn (ho*dld be rendered in Rom. v. n. and not 
by atonement. 

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for the Reverend Dr. Jennings, 27 

1 ft. Becaufe having feen God's falvation is an 
evidence of our being in a ftate of peace with him. 
Though men can live carelefs and unconcerned 
about the favour, or difpleafure of the God that 
made them, what reafonable creature, in the ufe 
of his fenfes, can die in peace, can think without 
horror, of going to appear before God, as his judge* 
and of being fixed by him in an eternal, unchange- 
able ftate of happinefs or mifery, while he is* quite 
uncertain, whether God is his friend, or his enemy ? 
But to have feen his falvation, to have been ena- 
bled heartily to embrace the Saviour of his ap- 
pointing, and to have been renewed in the image 
of his holinefs, is a clear, inconteftable proof of 
his fpecial favour ; that his grace has made us to 
differ ; that with loving kindnefs he has drawn us ; 
that though we were enemies, we are reconciled 
to him by the death of his Son, and that much 
more being reconciled, we mall be faved by his 
life. For his love is unchangeable like his nature ; 
he will perfect that which concerns us •, and what 
he has begun in grace he will confumrnate in glory. 
And what abundant reafon is this, for the faint's 
refigning himfelf to the cold arms of death with- 
out reluctance, with calmnefs and ferenity ? Nay, 
what a firm ground does this afford for comfort, 
joy, and triumph, in the profpect of his immediate 
releafe from this enemy's country, to go home to 
the everlafting enjoyment of his reconciled God 
and Father ! 



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2% A FUNERAL SERMON 

2dly. To have feen God's falvation, to have had 
his kingdom of grace commenced in our fouls, 
will form us to a proper temper for dying in peace. 
Where this fpiritual falvation has once come to 
reign in the heart, and wrought a thorough change 
in our nature, it will render devout refignation to 
the will of God, in all events, our prevailing tem- 
per through life. It will cure our immoderate af- 
fection for this world, loofen our attachments to 
it, and make us habitually ready to quit it, when- 
ever infinite wifdom and goodnefs fee fit. It will 
make us meet for a better world, will give us 
lively profpects by faith of it's joys and glories, 
and will fill us with longing defires, with ardent 
afpirations after it, as our complete deliverance 
from all our corruptions, troubles, and tempta- 
tions, and as the confummation of all our hopes, 
and wifhes, of our holinefs and happinefs. And 
then how welcome death ! How chearful, how 
thankful the Chriftian, to fee his trials and con- 
flicts juft over, and the end of his hopes and wifhes 
near! Further, 

3dly. To have feen God's falvation, believed in, 
and experienced its gracious effects, will fit us for 
departing in peace \ as it will afford us occafion 
for the mofl comfortable reflections , and give us 
ground for the mofl encouraging conclufions and ex- 
pectations. Chrifiians who have feen God's falva- 
tion, efpecially if, like Simeon, they have arrived to 
advanced years, and have been long waiting for 
its completion, can look back upon many folemn 

tranf- 






for the Reverend Dr. Jennings. 29 

tranfactions that have patted betwixt God and 
their fouls ; they can recollect how often they have 
fincerely given up themfelves to him, through 
his dear Son, both in public and private ; what 
delightful communion they have enjoyed with him 
in his ordinances, and what animating inward 
pledges they have received of his everlafting love, 
along with it's outward emblems, at the table of 
the Lord. How often, when they have fealed to 
him a covenant of faith and obedience, has he 
fealed to them a covenant of promife and grace ! 
And they have therefore his unchangeable pro- 
mifes, his covenant engagements, to plead and 
rely upon, for his never leaving nor forfaking 
them, for his fupporting and comforting them, 
when they are to walk through the valley of the 
fhadow of death, for his being the ftrength of 
their hearts, when flefh and heart are ready to fail, 
and being their portion for ever and ever. Once 
more, 

Athly. Having feen God^s falvation, is a necef- 
iary preparative for the j eatings of his Spirit? which 
will render death not only peaceful, but triumph- 
ant. Where our fupport refts only upon rational 
deductions from, and applications of, fcripture 
promifes to ourfelves, as anfwering the characters 
of thfe perfons to whom fuch promifes are made, 
it will be but weak and wavering -, becaufe our 
knowlege of ourfelves is fo imperfect and unfa- 
tisfactory, as our characters are fo mixed, and our 
frames fo variable and iriconflant. A lively joy and 

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Jlrong confolation, in the folemn period of nature's 
dirTolution, muil arife from the influences of the 
blefled Spirit , witneffing with our fpirits, that we 
belong to the family of God, and are heirs of his 
glory, and fealing us as fuch to the day of public 
redemption. But in order for the holy Spirit to 
feal us as his own, there muil be the previous 
work of his grace in our hearts, as the abiding mark 
of his property in us. There mull be the linea- 
ments of the divine likenefs drawn in our nature, 
like the lines of a fun-dial, for his light to fhine 
upon, and thereby difcover to us our refemblance 
of, and witnefs our relation to God, our heavenly 
Father. When the holy Spirit, who has renewed 
and fanclified us, irradiates his own work in our 
hearts, and aifures us that it is real, notwithstanding 
its preient imperfections, we can then triumph in 
the affurance, that it will be completed in glory, 
and rejoice the more fervently, the nearer 'we fee 
ourfelves approach to that blefifed flate. Thus I 
have mown you, what ground feeing God's falva- 
tion affords for a peaceful difmifiion, and have 
gone through what was propofed in opening the 



text. 



It now remains, that I endeavour to make fome 
Application of this noble fubjecl •, not fuch as it's 
importance and dignity might demand, but fuch 
as the little time before us will admit •, which* mull 
therefore be comprifed in a brief reflection, or 
two. As, 

I. Would 



for the Reverend Dr. Jennings. gl 

I. Would you die in peace, my brethren, and 
what an important bleffing is that ! how much 
mould it concern you to know, whether you are 
the fervants of God, and have fecn his falvation I 
Death is a folemn period, as it is the JEra or com- 
mencement of eternity, and dying work, in mere 
nature's ftrength, is hard work indeed ; and yet 
it is work you will all have to do, and the great 
God only knows how foon. Of what unfpeakable 
importance therefore is it, to be ready and pre- 
pared for it, in the ftrength of divine grace ! 
Now except you really bear the character of God's 
fervants, are, like Simeon, juft and devout perfons* 
or have cordially received Chrift and his falvation* 
you cannot die fafely, cannot be difmhTed of God 
in a way of mercy and peace, but are victims for 
the ftroke of his vengeance. And except you 
have fome good afjurance of your chriftian cha- 
racter, faith and experience, you cannot die com- 
fortably, ferenely and joyfully. Sirs, be awakened 
then to give diligence, to make your calling and 
election fure : And may the God of grace mew 
you his falvation, and fhew you feverally your 
perfonal intereft in it, that embracing your divine 
Saviour, in the arms of your faith, you may be 
always ready to depart in peace, and follow him 
chearfully into an invifible and eternal world. 
And, 



JIoUl, 



2dly. What reafon have we to acquiefce in the 
death of our chriftian friends, and long to follow 0xiMiCfL 
them, of whom we have fufEcient ground to be- 

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& A FUNERAL SERMON 

lieve, that they were fincere fervants of God, and 
had feen his falvaiion, and whom he has difmifs'd in 
peace ! Have we not parted with fuch, who walked 
clofeiy with God for a long courfe of years, who 
by a holy, regular, ufeful and exemplary conver- 
fation, proved themfelves to be the fervants of 
God, and fliewed both their experience, and the 
power of the gofpel falvation •, and who at length 
received a peaceful difmiffion, were ready to leave 
this world without any reluctance, knowing in 
whom they had believed, and in hopes of going 
to the enjoyment of a heavenly world ? It is a 
great lofs the church below, and tire friends and 
families of God's fervants fuftain in their removal ; 
but the confideration how much it is their gain, 
as well as God's appointment, mould reconcile us to 
it, and we fhould admire and adore that grace, 
v/hich made them once the excellent of the earth, 
in order to make them now the blelTed of Heaven. 
Inftead of lamenting their departure, it would be 
a nobler act of chrifcian friendfhip, to congratu- 
late in our own breafts their fafe arrival in the 
prefence of their beloved Saviour \ whofe falvation 
they faw here, and faw enough in that to kindle 
their devout affections to him, but whofe glorious 
per f on they fee above, and are loft in tranfports of 
wonder, love and joy. Having feen the end of 
their converfation, let it be our great concern to 
follow their faith and holinefs, like them to walk 
humbly and clofeiy with God, in the exercife of 
the private duties and graces of religion, and in a 
ferious attendance upon all its public inftitutions, 

as 



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for the Reverend Dr. Jennings* '$j. 

as well as to do juftice, and fliew mercy to men % 
that having been ufed to converfe with our bleffed 
Saviour by faith * in his word and ordinances, and 
advanced in our experience of his falvation, we 
may be prepared alfo to depart in peace, and go 
to fee and enjoy him in his heavenly glory, along 
with our pious friends gone before us. 

I doubt not but moft of you have anticipated 
me, by already applying in your' own minds 
what has juft been faid, to the mournful occafion 
that has collected this numerous audience. — The ' 
much lamented death of the late worthy Paftor of 
this church, the Rev. Dr. David Jennings* 
The Dn was no friend, nor am I, to making a ^ 
praBice in funeral difcourfes, of filling up much 
of the time, which is appointed for the fervice of 
our Creator, with the hiitory, orpraifes of our 
fellow creatures* Yet when eminent perfons, who 
have long filled up public ftations, with great ap- 
plaufe and ufefulnefs, are removed from this 
world, it is fit, and may be of real ufe, that dif- 
tinguifhed notice mould be taken of them, and 
fome account of them thus publicly preferred. 
I mall therefore lay before you a few brief me- 
moirs, relating to your deceafed miniiler, nearly 
in the order in which they have been put into my 
hands. 

The Rev. Dr. David Jennings was the fon of * 

the Rev. Mr. John Jennings^ formerly of Chrifi ^jk. 
Church College Oxon, and afterwards rector of 
Hartley JVafphelU Hants-, whence he was ejected 

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by the act of uniformity, on the 24th of Augufi 
1662, when many other excellent men alfo fu£ 
fered for eonfcience fake.* He had two fons, both 
devoted to the miniftry, and I may add, both orna- 
ments to it. The elder, the Rev. Mr. John 
Jennings, was for fometims pallor of a church at 
Kibworth, in Leicefterfhire, which his father had 
. gathered, and was afterwards tutor of an academy 
at Hinckley. Dr. David Jennings, the younger fon, 
who gloried in being the immediate defcendant of 
a confeiTor for liberty of eonfcience, was born 
May 18, 1 69 1, and received his grammer learning 
at a free-fchool in Kibworth. About the year 1 709 
he came to London, and entered on a courfe of 
academical ftudies, under the tuition of the Rev. 
Dr. Chauncy, and finimed them under the Rev. 
Dr. Ridgley and Mr. Eames. He preached his 
firft fermon at Batterfea, May 23, 1714. In 
CkJOUZjXv <X0 March following he was chofen one of the lectur- 
ers, at an evening lecture then carried on at Ro- 

* He continued for fome time about that county, preach- 
ing the gofpel, (though at the peril of his life) whenever op- 
portunity offered, refiding probably at Tuck-well, where he was 
tutor to one Mr. Noyes. After that he removed into Leicejlerjhire y 
and refided at Langton, as chaplain to Mrs. Pheafant ; in 
whofe houfe he founded a church of protectant diflenters, that 
Hill fubfifts at Kibworth, very near Langton. Dr. Cala?ny fays 
of him, " That he was a ferious and painful preacher, and of 
" a chearful temper j fpent much time in his ftudy, and was 
" well refpecled both by his people, and by the neighbouring 
u minifters, and was very eafy under iha< retired courfe of 
11 life, which he led in the latter part of his time." 

Calamfs Contin. of Baxter, Vol. I. p. 514,15. 

ther- 






for the Reverend Br. Jennings. 3.5 

therhithe. In June 1 7 1 6 he was chofen affiftant to 
the Rev. Mr. Fcxon. May 19, 1 7 1 8, he was cho- 
fen, and July 25, he was ordained paftor of this 
church, in the room of the Rev. Mr. Simmons de- 
ceafed. In 1 7 1 9 he married Mrs. Elizabeth Cox t 
of whom he had a melancholy lofs within the year. 
May 19, 1724 he married Mrs. Sarah Collinsf, his 
prefent mourning relict -, in her he enjoyed a pru- 
dent, as well as faithful partner through life ; of 
whole great care and tendernefs for him, under his 
late frequent diforder, he difcovered a deep fenfe, 
and by whom he has left two fons, Mr. Jofeph and 
Mr. David Jennings. On the deceafe of the Rev. 
Mr. Daniel Neal> in 1 743, he was chofen a truflee 
of Mr. Coward's large charities •, and in Auguft of 
that year, he fucceeded the Rev. Mr. Hubbard, as one 
of Mr. Coward's lecturers at little St. Helens. On the 
death of the learned Mr. John Fames in 1 744, he 
fucceeded him as divinity profeffor of the academy 
in London, then chiefly fupported by Mr. Coward's 
charity -, and in May 1749s tne ancient univerfrty 
of St. Andrews in Scotland, honoured him with the 
degree of doctor in divinity. 

There are but few things of the Doctor's in 
print; thofe with his name to them, fingle fej^ 
mons excepted, are, 

* She was daugher to Mr. William Cox of Wapping, timber 
merchant, and died in child-bed. 

t A daughter of Mr. Jofepb Collins of Hackney, deceafe4 
ibme time before. 

Q 2 Ser- 



36 A FUNERAL SERMON 

*N Sermons to Young People, publiihedin 1730^ 
and dedicated to his church. - 

^ Several Sermons, among thofe preach'd at Ber- 
ry Street by feveral miniflers, on the principal 
heads of the chriftian religion in 1733, and pub- 
lifh'd in 1735. 

A tranflation of profefibr Frances Letter on 
the mofl ufeful way of preaching, and a preface, 
containing fome account of the profefibr; pub- 
lifh'd in 1736, together with two difcourfes of 
>^ Mr. John Jennings's, on preaching Chrift, and on 
experimental preadhing. 

An Introduction to the Ufe of the Globes and 
Orrery, with an Appendix, attempting to explain 
the Mofaic Account of the firffc and fourth days 
work of Creation ; printed in 1739, but not pub - 
lifh'd 'till 1747. 

An Abridgment of the Life of the Rev. Dr. Cot- 
ton Mather, publim'd in 1744. 

An Appeal to reafon and Common Senfe, for 
the Truth of the Holy Scriptures, in 1755. 

Befides thefe, he was author of an anonymous 
piece, written with great fmartnefs, in vindication 
of the fcripture doctrine of original fin, printed 
in 1740. 

Dr. Jennings enjoy'd a very good ftate of health, 
for a great number of years, 'till within two years 

of 



for the Reverend Br. Jennings. 37 

of his death, when he was feiz'd with fits, which 
frequently return'd, and confiderably weaken'd 
him, 'till they carried him off. Upon finding 
hirnfelf decline, he was very follicitous to fee the 
church fettled with a pallor, capable of fupply- 
ing the lofs they fuftain'd by his incapacity of 
ferving them, tho' his affection for them, and not 
any lucrative views, made him defirous of retain- 
ing his relation to them till his death, as co-parlor 
with the perfon they might chufe. 



After thefe brief memoirs relating to the Doctor, 
you may expect I mould attempt to draw his cha- 
racter ; but here I am confcious how much it mufl 
fuffer under my hand, who am quite unpractis'd 
in every thing of this kind ; and therefore fome 
fhort, imperfect (ketches is all I can offer, which 
I hope your candour will receive, as expreffing my 
intention, rather than fatisfying my wifh 9 

Dr, Jennings was blefs'd with a ftrong conftitu- 
tion and comely perfon, and I may fafely add, 
with a quick apprehenfion, an acute judgment, 
a lively imagination, and a happy memory, His 
natural temper was eafy and chearful, and at the 
fame time warm and fanguine y ancj tho' that 
temper always has its inconveniences, it has alfo 
its great advantages, which were very confpicuous 
in him, as it render'd him indefatigable in purfu- 
ing every ftudy he engag'd in, and indeed in fill- 
C 3 ing 



*$ A FUNERAL SERMON 

ing up all the duties of his ftation, as they wer£ 
highly his delight. His general behaviour was 
humane and obliging, and his converfation was 
very acceptable, as it was always chearful, enter- 
taining and inftructive. For this he was well fur- 
nifh'd by his general knowlege ; for, befides an 
extenfive and accurate underftanding of the Scrip- 
tures, there were few branches of fcience, or of 
arts and manufactures with which he was wholly 
unacquainted. He liv'd much in his ftudy, yet 
without acquiring any of the ruft and aufterity, 
or aukward unfocial manners which too often dis- 
grace learning -, and the ftrength of his constitu- 
tion carried him thro' a constant feries of labori- 
ous ftudies, for feveral years after his engaging 
in the academy, without impairing his fpirits, or 
Subjecting him to that languor which attends re- 
lax'd nerves, and is apt to render perfons very 
uncomfortable to themfelves and others. In pri- 
vate life, — Few had the happinefs to be more va- 
lued by their friends and acquaintance \ and the 
genuine, unaffected grief of his furviving family, 
mews what a fenfe they have of their great lofs in 
his removal : a long courfe of harmonious years 
deeply endear'd him to his now afflicted confort ; 
and he was not wanting to his children in any of 
the duties of an affectionate parent, which he had 
the pleafure to fee return'd in filial piety. He 
kept up the worihip of God, and good order in 
his family, with great care and conftancy, and was 
an amiable example to them of piety, flrict So- 
briety and temperance. 

In 



for the Reverend Br. J>*kN i ngs. 39 

In his public character ; — as a Minifter, I need' 
not tell you. of this congregation, how well fur- 
nifh'd he was for his work, and how acceptable in 
it. As to his fcheme of fentiments in divinity, 
tho 5 he call'd no man mailer, but was a zealous 
affertor of the right of private judgment, in op- 
pofition to the authority of human creeds and hu- 
man eftablifhments of religion, his fentiments 
came nearer! to Calvinifm^ as what he thought, in 
the main, to be the obvious doctrine of Scripture, 
and the preaching of which God had always moft 
remarkably own'd and fucceeded. In him they 
were the refult of clofe fludy, which had fo well 
ftock'd his mind with religious knowlege, that he 
would often, upon occafion, preach with the fame 
fluency and propriety extempore, as if he had had 
the greater! leifure for compofing. There was 
an agreeable mixture of eafe and dignity in his 
appearance in the pulpit ; his voice was clear and 
mufical rather than ftrong ; his manner graceful, 
pleating and pathetic ; and his matter was fo 
happily diverlify'd, as to render his difcourfes both 
entertaining and edifying, ingenious and affec- 
tionate. But his diftinguiJJiing excellency was a cer- 
tain eafe and perfpicuity^ which ran thro' all his 
performances, whether of the pulpit or the prefs, 
by which he made every fubjedfc he treated of ap- 
pear plain and familiar. He was form'd as a 
preacher for a fon of confolation, rather than a fon 
of thunder, tho' he could fometimes be awfully, 
as well as tenderly pathetic, I need not tell you, 
that he had a very happy gift in prayer, and could 
readily adapt himfelf with great pertinency and 

C 4 fulncfs 



r 40 r A FUNERAL SERMON 

fulnefs, to the variety of cafes that occur, in 
common or in the chriftian life. In fhort, he was 
diftinguifh'd among his brethren in the miniftry 
for his abilities \ and for many years God ren- 
der'd his labours among you very fuccefsful, while 
ivith much ferioufnefs, fidelity arid conftancy, he 
difcharg'd all the duties of his paftoral office, 'till 
near the clofe of his life. 

It was the opinion of his diftinguifh'd abilities, pro^ 
eur'd him a call to the academy ,'from the worthy gen- 
tlemen concern'd in fupporting it, and the earneft 
ibllicitations of the ftudents, which had confiderable 
weight with him, to induce him to accept it. And 
in what a courfe of labour did that engage him ! 
Thofe of you who had the advantage of being 
under his tuition, before his fatal diforder feiz'd 
him, well know, with what uninterrupted con- 
ftancy he fill'd up his place in the academy, never 
furFering any thing to divert him from his daily- 
attendance. You know what an eafy, happy 
method recommended his inftru&ions ; how fa- 
miliarly he led you by the hand thro' the gates of 
facred truth ; how affiduous he was in difcharg- 
ing all the duties of his important relation to you, 
improving your minds with divine knowlege, re<* 
commending ferious, experimental religion to you, 
and watching over your manners and conduct ; 
how tender he was of your interefts, and always 
ready to befriend and affift you ! Indeed his whole 
foul was engag'd in his academical employ -, it was 
his heart's deftre and earnefl prayer, to have his 

ftudents 



for the Reverend Dr. Jennings. 41 

ftudents prove fkilful, ferious, godly minifrers of 
the glorious gofpel of Chrifl-, and he had the plea- 
fure to fee many go from under his care who have 
prov'd fuch, have met with great acceptance in 
the world, and by whom his ufefulnefs will be as 
it were prolong'd, 

Thus did he chearfully perfevere in a conflant 
courfe of various fervices, till it pleas'd God, about 
two years fince, to permit an epileptic diforder to 
feize him, probably owing to his denying him- j 
felf fufficient reft, and over-ftraining his conftitu- 
tion by very early ftudies, for feveral years toge- 
ther, after his undertaking his employ in the aca- 
demy. The frequent returns of this diforder gra- 
dually impair'd him, and prevented his continued 
conftancy in the duties of his ftation, and made 
him apprehenfive of becoming quite incapacitated 
For fervice, a thing which of all others he moil 
dreaded, and which he always look'd upon with 
concern, when he faw it befall any of his brethren. 
It was his frequent defire, that he might not out- *■**»*» 
live his ufefulnefs ; and you know how much God 
was pleafed to gratify him in this ; as he preach'd 
the very Lord's-day before his death, and that fe- 
veral of you thought, with more fpirit than ufual. 

On JVednefday morning, the 15th inftant, he was fild $iL&3*&i 
vifited with a return of his fits, which, after the ^[mjdA£% , 
convulfions went off, left him in a dozing condi- 
tion, which he never came out of; but towards 
evening his breath grew very fhort, and that dif- 
ficulty 



42 A FUNERAL SERMON 

ficulty of breathing encreafed, 'till early on the 
Tburfday morning *, " wfthout either figh, or 
groan, or the leaft flruggling, he, in the moft 
eafy and compos'd manner, breath'd his la(L" 

Thus he departed in peace ; and that, not only 
with refpect to the moft important confideration, 
of being in a ft 'ate of peace with God^ as he was 
one of his fervants, who had ken. his falvation ; 
but alio as to the manner of his dying, which was 
juft according to his wifh. For as his frequent 
fits made him apprehend his diffblution approach- 
ing, he never intimated any fear of it, but ap- 
peared habitually ready to meet it without re- 
luctance, and often exprefled his preference of a 
f fudden death, if it pleafed God. And it feems, 
that in mercy and favour God indulged his wifh, 
and in the way he defired took him to himfelf. 
Thus he refts from his labours, and his works 
follow him. 

And now what remains, but that we all endea- 
vour to make a fui table improvement of this af- 
fecting dhpenfation of Providence ! May you, 
my much reflected friends, his near relations, 
learn from this melancholy breach God has made 
upon you, to ceafe from man, to expect lefs from 



* Dr. Lardnerh words, in his Funeral Sermon for Dr. Hunt, 
p. 48. 

t See his Thoughts on this Subject, in his Funeral Sermon 
for Mrs. Watts, p. 16. 

fellow^ 



for the Reverend Br. Jennings. 43 

fellow-creatures, and to depend more on the God 
of providence and grace, to make up to you the 
lofs of fo honoured and valuable a relation : be 
refigned to his will, whofe goodnefs *has appeared 
in many circumftances attending this affliction, 
which I need not fuggeft to you. Be thankful 
your relation fubfifted fo long, with fo much com- 
fort. And above all let it be your conftant con- 
cern, to improve the advantages you enjoyed from 
his inftruction, tender care and example, that you 
may follow his faith and holinefs, be the fteady, 
faithful fervants of God in your day and genera- 
tion, may fee his falvation, advance in the ex- 
perience of its power, and fo be prepared far 
being alfo difmift in peace. 

As for you, my chriftian friends, the dear peo- 
ple of his charge whofe removal you now lament - 9 
let me call upon you to be thankful, that you en- 
joyed a pallor above 44 years, who was capable of 
almoft uninterrupted fervice among you till the 
two laft, and then was not wholly laid afide; a 
paftor who was fo eminently furnifhed, was fo 
fkilful, faithful and diligent to ferve your fouls. 
Reflect frequently on the great advantages you 
enjoyed under his miniflry, ferioufly enquire what 
good effect it has had upon you, and ftudy yet to 
improve it. Let not his judicious and affectionate 
labours among you, let not bim 9 rife up againrt 
you at the great judgment day, to furnim mat- 
ter for your aggravated condemnation ; but be 
follicitous, that through divine grace, whofe riches 

you 



44 A FUNERAL SERMON 

you often heard him difplay, you may then ap- 
pear with him as his joy and crown. Be ambitious 
to approve yourfelves ferious, judicious, eftab- 
lifhed chriftians, worthy the privileges, worthy 
the pallor, with which you have been fo long fa- 
voured ; and let your behaviour as a church do 
honour to his memory. As fuch, keep together, 
walk together in love, and ftrive together in 
prayer, for divine direction in your prefent cir- 
cumflances -, and be thankful you are not left 
quite deftitute, but that you liill enjoy the ferious, 
excellent labours of your affiftant * preacher, 
which I muft be free to fay, none can flight, with- 
out betraying a want of fenfe -or ferioufnefs ; and 
may the God of all grace, in his due time, fully 
heal the breach he has made upon you. 

And laftly, as to you my dear young friends, 
far from the loft in my thoughts and affeclions, who 
have been deprived of an excellent director of 
your divinity ftudies ♦, let this interruption to your 
ftudies, this flate of uncertainty and fufpenfe it 
has brought you into be improved, to teach you 
in early life to prepare for, and calmly bear dis- 
appointments, which you will frequently meet with 
as you advance in life, and in a becoming deport- 
ment under which, much of the ufe and credit of 
religion confifts. 

May you learn to look more to the great fource 
of light, the author of every good gift, that di- 

* The Rev. Mr, William Ford, junior. 

vine 



for the Reverend Dr. Jennings, 45 
vine teacher, who alone teaches to profit. Com- 
mit yourfelves in ferious prayer to the divine dif- 
pofal, and on this occafion recommend it to the 
great head of the church, to provide proper in- 
ftruments for your further inftrudtion, that your 
education may be as happily finim'd, as it has 
been ufefully begun. Be careful to make the bed 
ufe of the advantages you have already enjoy'd, 
and imitate the exemplary diligence of your late 
worthy tutor, in improving time, efpecially to pre- 
pare for eternity. Let it be your principal care, 
to cultivate an experimental acquaintance with re- 
ligion, fo to fee God's falvation, and feel its power *, 
that whenever he may call you hence, and young 
as you are, you know not how foon, how fuddenly 
that folemn event may take place, you may be 
ready to depart in peace* 

And now, brethren, I commend you all to God, 
and to- the word of his grace - 3 which is able to 
keep you from falling, and to preferve you blame- 
lefs, and to build you up, and to give you an in- 
heritance among ail them which are fanctify'd. 

^f(X41^ HUtrOr^ JW<U^ Amen, 

fhe End of the Sermon. 



THE 






5' 



THE 

-.ORATION. 

WE are now affembled upon a very mourn- 
ful occafion, to depofite in the grave the 
mortal part, and by this attendance to pay our 
laft tribute of refped to the remains of our much 
efteemed, venerable friend, and father, who by 
the providence of God was continued to a good 
old age, and retained his ufefulnefs to the laft* 
Our grief indeed is greatly alleviated by a firm 
perfuafion, that his foul is entered into that reft 
which remaineth for the people of God, after the 
labours and fatigue of the day \ and that death 
fhall not have a perpetual dominion over his body y 
but that it mall (hortly triumph over the grave by 
a happy and joyful refurre£tion to an immortal 
life. 

■ It is affecting and humbling to behold the very 
great change, which is quickly difcovered in thefe 
vile bodies, when the infatiable devourer of the 
human race has feized us as his prey. Thofe who 
were once fprightly, vigorous, and aclive ; who 
have difcharged the different duties of their feveral 
ftations and relations in life, with great fidelity 

and 



**• •' w# y *•■ •-* - -.* >i * ,* 

48 THE ORATION. 

and honour; and who have attracted the general 
notice and efteem, are inftantly deprived of all ca- 
pacity for any further fervice. There is a neceflity 
almoft immediately to convey away the lifelefs 
corpfe % that in the fecret chambers of the grave, 
far removed from our view, it may turn to rotten- 
nefs and dull : we at length fubmit, and even be- 
come defirous, to bury our dead out of our light. 
Thefe particulars can hardly fail to diftrefs us, in 
proportion to our apprehenfion of the excellence of 
the characters of our deceafed friends, and to the 
clofenefs of the connection, which by the awful 
ftroke is now dirTolved. 

If it was poflible to gratify our defires, We mould 
joyfully extend the date of their lives far beyond 
the period which is afiigned to the human race. 
We are prone ardently to wifh, that a difpenfation 
could be obtained in their favour from the king of 
terrors, to relieve them from fubmitting to the com-- 
mon law of mortality, which it is painful to us to 
think of, as befalling them ; though it is an event 
greatly to be de fired upon many accounts by 
themfelves, as the friends of the blerTed Jefus. 
It is appointed to all men once to die. By one man 
Jin entered into the worlds and death by fin, and death 
pajfes upon all men, for that all have finned. Mourn- 
ful experience convinces us abundantly, that there 
can be no difcharge from this warfare. The fer- 
vants of the living God, who have difcovered to 

us 



THE ORATION. 49 

Us the way of falvation* and thofe who have been 
the mod happily diftinguifhed by eminent natural 
and acquired abilities for extenfive fervice to the 
intereft of religion •, who have difcovered the molt 
affectionate concern for the welfare of immortal 
fouls ; who have been the moft diligent and inde- 
fatigable in the fervice of their Mailer ; who have 
been crowned with the greateft fuccefs in their en- 
deavours to recover men from Satan unto God ; 
who by their holy and upright conduct have en- 
forced the doctrines and duties they have recom- 
mended to others •, who have in a long, fteady, 
uniform courfe of life approved themfelves the 
faithful ftewards of. the manifold grace of God ; 
even they are not fuffered to continue by reafon 
of death. The treafure is lodged in earthen vef- 
fels, that the excellency of the power may appear 
to be of God and not of men, and that he who 
glorieth may glory in the Lord ; from whom pro- 
ceedeth every good and perfect gift -, and who ef- 
pecially commands the increafe, which attends the 
labours of the minifters of his word. 

But while we lament, that the prophets are not 
permitted to live for ever ; and feel the painful 
flroke which divides them from our fociety, and 
deprives us of the benefit of their further inftruc- 
tions •, furely we mould not fuffer them to be ab- 
folutely loft to us in the prefent world. Being 
dead they yet fpeak, by the remembrance of their 
undirTembled piety and goodnefs, their holy con- 
D verfation 



SO THE O R A T I O N. 

verfation and behaviour, their attachment to the 
intereft of the Redeemer, and their fervent zeal 
or the falvation of perifhing fouls. 

The Providence we are now directed to attend 
to, loudly calls upon you, my friends, who for 
many years have been favoured with the minif- 
trations of this faithful fervant of the bleffed Jefus, 
to enquire whether your improvement has been 
proportional to the excellency of the means of grace 
which you have enjoyed : and to be exceeding 
thankful, that this burning and finning light was 
continued to you for fo long a feafon ; and that 
the benefit which many of you have received from 
his labours has been exceeding great. Reflect, I 
intreat you, how dreadful it would be to hear him 
teftify againft any of you at the bar of God, that 
he ftretched out his hands all his life long to you, 
but you would not hear. But I hope better things 
of you, my brethren, though I thus fpeak, even 
things that pertain unto falvation : and yet from, 
a principle of iincere affedtion, I would exhort you 
to remember him who has had the rule over you, 
who has fpoken to you the word of God ^ whofe 
faith follow, confidering the end of his conver- 
fation ; that you all may be his crown of rejoicing 
in the prefence of our Lord Jefus Chrift at his 
coming. 

You, my dear young friends, who are defigning 
for the important fervice of the fanctuary, will, 

3 I P er * 



THE ORATION. 51 

I perfuade myfelf, make it your arduous endeavour, 
to prove yourfclves not unworthy of thofe excel- 
lent inflru&ions you have received from him, 
whofe voice you will now hear no more. 

This difpenfation of Providence I have no doubt 
will be confidered by you, the dear relatives of 
our deceafed friend, as peculiarly inftructive -, as 
defigned to quicken you to. be followers of him, 
who through faith and patience is now inheriting 
the promifes. 

You, my brethren and. fathers in the minijtry, have, 
I am aware, anticipated me in confidering the im- 
provement which it becomes us to make of the pre- 
fent affecting ftroke : though I hope you will bear 
with me in reminding you of that which I would 
charge upon myfelf to lay to heart : namely, that 
this vifitation feems particularly calculated to ani- 
mate us to employ all oilr talents, with our utmoft 
diligence for the glory of God •, that we may by 
our increafing zeal and activity, endeavour to con- 
tribute towards repairing, in fome meafure, that 
lofs which the intereft of Chrifthas now fuftained. 

It is much to be defired, that the mournful oc- 
cafion of our prefent meeting may be improved by 
all of us, as the means of urging us to be always 
ready. The prefent folemnity firongly enforces the 
advice which our Lord directs his people ever to 
bear in mind, to watch, becaufe we know not at 
what hour the Son of Man will come. The tran- 

fition 



52 THE ORATION. 

fition as to our dear friend was inftantaneous, from 
apparent perfect health to an intire incapacity of 
taking any ftep towards his further preparation for 
death and judgment. 

Let each of us then do whatever our hands find 
to do with our might, becaufe there is no device, or 
knowledge, or wifdom in the grave to which we hafte. 

Let us Chriftians give diligence to make our catting 
and eletlion fare, that at whatever feafon of life our 
Lord may fummon us, or whether the degree 
of warning be greater or lefs, we may depart in 
peace ; knowing that our Redeemer lives ; and that 
though in the flefh we may fee corruption, yet that 
Jleeping in Jefus God will bring us with him ; and 
that at the refurreclion this corruptible /hall put on 
incorruption, this mortal ftiall put on immortality \ 
and that our bodies mail then be fafhioned like to 
the glorious Body of our exalted Saviour. 

Then fhall the children of God have a moft 
joyful meeting with all their friends, who have de- 
parted in the faith of Chrift : and the faithful mi- 
%ifter will receive no inconfiderable addition to his 
happinefs and triumph in that day, when he fhall 
prelent before the throne of God all thofe who 
had been the feals of his miniftry here on earth, 
faying : Here am I, and the children whom thou haft 



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